Identification

• The Curious George books--released by Scholastic--have yellow covers and include scenes featuring this playful monkey. These picture books--written at a first-grade level--follow the stories depicted in the cartoon series.
  
  

History

• The first full-length "Curious George" movie was released in 2006 by Imagine Entertainment, which also released a sequel, "Curious George: Follow that Monkey," in 2009.
  
  

Settings

• The books are set in the city or the country, namely the Man in the Yellow Hat's city apartment or country house. The settings of the movies are the city and Africa.
  
  

Characters

• The main character in the books is Curious George. The main character in the movie is actually The Man in the Yellow Hat, who is named Ted in the movie. No other characters from the books appear in the movie, and vice versa.
  
  

Famous Ties

• Will Ferrell voices Ted--The Man in the Yellow Hat--in the first "Curious George" movie. Eugene Levy and Drew Barrymore voice other characters.